The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 2W. Strahan, 1772 |
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... father's nakedness , while the accurft Cham difclofed it . This must be done in fuch a manner as even themselves might not be- hold it . We are , as much as may be , to keep ourselves from looking on thofe nakedneffes of our fathers ...
... father's nakedness , while the accurft Cham difclofed it . This must be done in fuch a manner as even themselves might not be- hold it . We are , as much as may be , to keep ourselves from looking on thofe nakedneffes of our fathers ...
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... father " that begat thee , " fays the wife man , and defpife " not thy mother when she is old " But the youth of our age fet up for wifdom the quite contrary way , and think that by defpifing and ridiculing their parents , they fhall ...
... father " that begat thee , " fays the wife man , and defpife " not thy mother when she is old " But the youth of our age fet up for wifdom the quite contrary way , and think that by defpifing and ridiculing their parents , they fhall ...
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... father or mother , let him die the death . " And alas ! our daily experience tells us , that this curfing of parents is not only poffible , but common . How many children are there , that either through impatience of the government , or ...
... father or mother , let him die the death . " And alas ! our daily experience tells us , that this curfing of parents is not only poffible , but common . How many children are there , that either through impatience of the government , or ...
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... fathers and mothers , that they cannot , without a kind of theft , give away themfelves . They must have the allowance of those that have the right in them , and therefore we fee under the Mofaical law , the maid that had made any vow ...
... fathers and mothers , that they cannot , without a kind of theft , give away themfelves . They must have the allowance of those that have the right in them , and therefore we fee under the Mofaical law , the maid that had made any vow ...
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... father , and from that title and relation calls for our obedience ; and therefore ftubborn , headstrong , difobedient , and rebellious children , ought to think upon thefe things ; to confider all the ties and obligations they have to ...
... father , and from that title and relation calls for our obedience ; and therefore ftubborn , headstrong , difobedient , and rebellious children , ought to think upon thefe things ; to confider all the ties and obligations they have to ...
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Page 239 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 191 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Page 181 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Page 48 - In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives ; beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.
Page 208 - ... or governor's sight. If it be a prison to them, it is no wonder they should not like it. They must not be hindered from being children, or from playing, or doing as children ; but from doing ill. All other liberty is to be allowed them.
Page 189 - Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself, and his own conduct; and he that is a good, a virtuous, and able man, must be made so within. And therefore what he is to receive from education, what is to sway and influence his life, must be something put into him betimes; habits woven into the very principles of his nature; and not a counterfeit carriage, and dissembled outside, put on by fear, only to avoid the present anger of a father, who perhaps may disinherit him.
Page 188 - If therefore a strict hand be kept over children from the beginning, they will in that age be tractable, and quietly submit to it, as never having known any other...
Page 202 - ... it. For in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is to make the best of what Nature has given; to prevent the Vices and Faults to which such a Constitution is most inclined, and give it all the Advantages it is capable of. Every one's Natural Genius should be carried as far as it could, but to Attempt the putting another upon him, will be but Labour in vain: And what is so Plaister'd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the Ungracefulness of Constraint...
Page 191 - To avoid the danger that is on either hand is the great art : and he that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.
Page 161 - I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind.